Graham Greene
Volume III

January 24, 2005

The Life of Graham Greene
Volume III: 1955-1991
By Norman Sherry (Viking, 906 pp., $39.95)
I.
In William Golding's wittily acerbic novel The Paper Men, the famous English novelist Wilfred Barclay is doggedly pursued by a young American professor of English, Rick L. Tucker, who sees him as the perfect vehicle for the creation of a dazzling academic career. From party to party, from country to country, impervious to rebuffs, irrepressible and indefatigable, Tucker stalks his quarry.